A restraining order is usually placed on an animate object—someone who actually has to be restrained. Not on, say, a house.
Sagaponack resident Lilith Jacobs, however, did just that.
Ms. Jacobs placed a restraining order on a small, 1930s foursquare farmhouse on Hedges Lane, insisting the home remain at least 300 feet from Read More
A white Rolls Royce was meandering down the long dirty road to the Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge on Saturday, July 18, ruining whatever wash it had most likely just received.
It was the inaugural game of the event, which will be held for seven weeks on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Bridgehampton. Read More
On the sunny afternoon of July 24, Bob Balaban held a meeting with a drainage specialist at his Bridgehampton home to discuss, among other issues, the death of his hydrangeas.
“I tried sprinkling them with aluminum-chloride flakes,” he said woefully to the man from Hampton Irrigation. Mr. Balaban addressed him as “Steve.” Steve wore work Read More
GABRIELLE: Saturday.
I wake up feeling sick today, nauseous and tired. I dry heave off the side of the bed uncontrollably. Todd rouses, “You OK?”
“I’m fine, just need to eat.” I scamper to the kitchen and open the fridge. Nothing looks appealing so I grab a cold Poland Spring and head to Read More
With two $50 million mansions currently on the market, here comes the $50 million co-op, according to the New York Times. No stranger to high-end deals, owner Francesco Galesi sold Calvin Klein a $29 million beach house a few years ago.
Kelsey Grammer purchased a new house in Bridgehampton, Read More
Those few who find themselves in a position to knowledgeably discuss the attendees of the Bridgehampton Polo Club games often talk in code. New Money. No Money. The Real People don’t come anymore.
The interpretation of this code might lead one down some very dark social alleys. Still, more objective comments might be made about Read More
What happened to Bridgehampton’s blue-blood polo games? And what have the young turks, with their rap music and their hussies, done with all the old bluebloods? Says Hamptons chronicler Steven Gaines, “I realized that the people we used to call society are almost completely dead.”
In today’s Transom, bizarrely—err, intentionally! Right!—The Transom goes Read More
The absolutely most luscious thing about working in an office is sharing the wealth of magazine subscriptions. Speaking of: The Transom purchased, actually paid for, a subscription to Hamptons magazine more than a month ago, and it has yet to arrive. Paging Jason Binn, your order fulfillment department is making The Transom very, very unhappy. Read More
